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</font><p align="center" style="margin: 1em 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Good narrative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">Clear, consice . It
teaches a lot about the Indian</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">and white
man’s</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">cultures. </font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Martha
Fisher glanced at her niece Lisa, who was supposed to be doing her homework.
Lisa sat across the kitchen table with a sheet of lined notebook paper before
her. Lisa twisted a pencil in her fingers, but didn’t seem to have written
anything on the sheet. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Didn’t seem to have written. She either
wrote or did not write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font></font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">I think the active for </span></u></b><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">the sentence works better.</span></u></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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“What’s wrong Lisa?” Martha asked. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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“I don’t know what to write,” answered Lisa. “My teacher said to write about
where our family names came from. She said that people came from places like Italy</font><font size="3">, </font><font size="3">Germany</font><font size="3">,
</font><font size="3">Ireland</font><font size="3"> or </font><font size="3">Scotland</font><font size="3"> and we
can guess where our ancestors came from by our family names. I don’t know where
my father’s family got the name of Swan.”</font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Good introduction of the issues. Very
concise.</font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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“” Great grandmother Ruth said that our people didn’t use family names before
they were forced to sign treaties.” Mused Martha. “she said that when our band
was brought to this reservation to join the Potawatomi and Ottawa</font><font size="3">, they made everyone choose a white
name for their families to write them down for the lists of the members of each
band and clan group. When I was in the fifth grade like you, I asked her what
she knew about why we are called Fisher. She said it was because there was a
French-Canadian trapper who was married to her grandmother. He said they could
use his name. It started with a V. but the agency man misunderstood and wrote
it Fisher. Perhaps your father’s family was from the Swan Creek band and
decided to use the English word for swan. I think that some scientists believe
that our people came across a land bridge that used to stretch from </font><font size="3">Russia</font><font size="3"> to </font><font size="3">Alaska</font><font size="3">.
They moved down from the north and when the border between </font><font size="3">Canada</font><font size="3"> and </font><font size="3">Michigan</font><font size="3"> was drawn, some of our people ended
up on both sides of the lines they drew on maps. I remember we used the same
book when I was in the fifth grade like you. I wish they wouldn’t use that
book, because it doesn’t really tell much about history before all of the white
African or Chinese people came here.”</font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"> </font><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><font size="3">I think that this parragraph should be
broken up to at least two, because the subjects are related but different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font><font size="3">For clarities sake.</font></u></b></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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“Lisa giggled, “Do you know what Ryan’s first grade classmates asked him when
they learned he was Indian? They wanted to know if his parents wore feathers
and warpaint, like in the movies!” He told them that his father wore an army
uniform but his mama did paint her face and wore feathers on Sundays. He
thought they were talking about her makeup and her Sunday hat with the feathers
on it.”</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>A reasonable assumption, and funny.</u></b></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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“Oh dear! I’ll let papa know that he needs to take the boys and you to some of
the tribal gatherings to learn about the dances and ceremonies. I know that
mama wants us to learn how the white people live and think, but we also need to
know who we are. Our ways are different, but they are the cup the Great Mystery
made for us. Next time I go to visit my Grandma Minnie, come with me and she
can teach you some of the stories and ways that you should know.” Martha
replied.</font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>I love the way your stories teach about
the comparison of cultures, and especially about the Indian culture. </u></b></font></font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I know there are a lot of subcultures.</font></span></u></b></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin: 1em 0in;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Lisa
bent her head to begin telling the story of how names are given among the
Chippewa. She knew that she was called first-born-daughter until great
grandmother Minnie told her mother, Mary Swan, that her true name was spring
blossom. Lisa Swan was her paper government name. It didn’t tell who she was in
her heart or spirit. Summer was coming, and she would have more time to listen
to Grandpa and other elders as they shared the things, they knew about how to
be a good person, part of her family, clan and
people. </font></span></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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